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During a trip through Northern England
Anita Sethi became the victim of a race-hate crime. The crime was a vicious attack on her right to exist in a place on account of her race. After the attack, Anita experienced panic attacks and anxiety. A crushing sense of claustrophobia made her long for wide open spaces, to breathe deeply in the great outdoors. She was intent on not letting her experience stop her travelling freely and without fear.
In her new book,
I Belong Here: a Journey Along the Backbone of Britain, the first of her nature writing trilogy, Anita transforms her personal experience into one of universal resonance, offering a call to action, to keep walking onwards, forging a path through and beyond pain. Every footstep taken is an act of persistence. Every word written is an act of resistance. Anita s journey through the natural landscapes of the North is one of reclamation, a way of saying that this is her land too and she belongs in the UK as a brown woman, as much a
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The year 2020 was not a complete write-off for Sairish Hussain. Towards the end of the year, a silver lining appeared in the form of that one thing all debut writers yearn for: recognition.
Hussain received news that her book,
The Family Tree, which took five years to write, had secured a place on the Costa Book Awards shortlist for First Novel.
“I didn’t win the category in the end,” Hussain says, “but just to have the book on the shortlist, especially when there were so many incredible debuts to choose from, it made my whole year.”
Her novel is an
Jhumpa Lahiri headlines the 2020 Society of Authors Awards for her translation of ‘
Trick’ by Domenico Starnone for Europa Editions.
In London’s Bloomsbury, February 8. Image – iStockphoto: Josh Good
Five Winners Newly Announced
In London this morning (February 11), the Society of Authors which annually administers a large collection of endowed awards programs has announced the winners of its suite of 2020 translation awards.
The society, in fact, is a trade union that handles many more prize programs than this, carrying in 2020 alone some £120,000 (US$159,994) in prizes for various competitions in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as translation.
Today’s list brings together £13,000 (US$17,974) in winnings.
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey (Peepal Tree) has won the £30,000 2020 Costa Book of the Year award.
The Costa Book Awards recognize “some of the most enjoyable books of the year, written by authors based in the UK and Ireland.” Each winner in the five individual categories receives £5,000. The Costa Book of the Year was selected from the category winners and announced in an online ceremony on January 26, 2021. This year’s final judges were Angellica Bell, Horatio Clare, Jill Dawson, Sadie Jones, Zaffar Kunial, Patrice Lawrence, Suzannah Lipscomb (chair), Stephen Mangan, and Simon Savidge.
For more information, including the complete list of winners, see the Costa website.